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Medical practicioner, 1924-1928 Beckenham, Kent, 1929-1934
Birkdale, Lancs, 1935-1957 Birkdale, Lancs, 1958-1962 London. Also worked for the Cunard line and other lines as a ships surgeon from 1926.
* indexed, but not listed as such

A relative writes: "On May 29,
Robert Owen Wilcoxon was mortally wounded at the Dunkirk evacuation. The boat he
was in was bombed by an enemy plane, he was taken seriously injured onto the
ship which was to take him home, the HMS Bideford and there he died early
the next morning. With him was a young volunteer Sub-Lt. Cosmo T. Arnold,
R.N.V.R., from Havant near Portsmouth,
who a few days later wrote a
thoughtful letter to Sheila, here transcribed from two handwritten pages: Dear Mrs Wilcoxon,
I am ever so sorry having to write a letter like this about your husband. Please
accept my deepest sympathy. I was with him at the end and he died like a man. He
asked me to write to you and let you know that his last thoughts were for you. I
was in the “Bideford” at Dover, and last Wednesday at 12 noon we were ordered to
go over to Dunkirk and help in embarking the soldiers. We arrived there at 6,
and from then onwards we were subjected to bombing and machine gun attacks. At
one time there were 40 bombers over us, and it was during this period that your
husband who was in a “whaler” came alongside, the boat was crammed full of
soldiers, and a bomber swooped alongside and machined gunned it. We rescued your
husband and about 4 soldiers, all the others were drowned. Unfortunately Lieut.
Wilcoxon was wounded twice in the right leg and then in his chest. I and a
sailor carried him to a table on the “mess deck”, which was quite sheltered and
the doctor, on board, immediately did all in his power to save him.
Unfortunately he didn’t survive and died at 3 a.m. on Thursday morning. He was
very calm and peaceful and I do not think suffered very much. I have enclosed
everything that I found on him, thinking that you would like to treasure some of
them, including a note that he wrote.
Yours with deepest sympathy,
Cosmo T. Arnold"

HMS
Queen Emma (troop ship) (took part in the raids on Lofoten, Dieppe, Algiers
and finally Sicily) (killed by a bomb splinter while the ship was bombed *)

* One tribute was from the Commander-in-Chief of
the station in the Mediterranean, who wrote to his captain: "It was a most
unfortunate and sad thing that you should have lost Wilkes at a time when he was
badly needed, and the more so when he had given such good service and his relief
was on the way. A man of such sterling character and so many excellent qualities
will be greatly missed. We cannot afford to lose such as he."

A daughter writes: "He was injured in a mine
explosion and spent a year in hospital during the war. He has had a career as a
choral conductor (including at the Proms) and composer - since his retirement
from conducting (aged 90) he has been increasingly active in composition. He now
lives in Sale (Manchester)."

His son writes: "Enlisted,
1939/1940, as an Able Seaman, HMS Nelson, narrowly, missing the enrolment for
HMS Hood, from, before/on his 1st Term at Cambridge University. Served in
'Action Stations' on the 'Pom-Pom' - Discharge in 1945 (HMS Rosneath, Scotland).
Visited, Egypt, and fought in battles in the Mediterranean Sea. Something, also,
about, navigating 'Invasion Barges', also, training with 'Mad' Mac, on the
Coast, using live ammo."

MIRACLE MAN SURVIVES FIVE SPINE FRACTURES
Although he suffered five fractures to the spine and two broken ribs, when his ship blow up, Lieut. Dennis Williams, D.S.C., who is known as the, "miracle man," is hoping to get back to sea soon.
For many weeks he has been lying encased in plaster paris at a West Scotland naval hospital and the doctors and nurses are astonished that he is still alive. Williams was injured last September when H.M.S. Hurworth, on which he was stationed, attempted to take
off the crew of the Greek destroyer Adrias after the latter had hit a mine. Hurworth was just going alongside the Adrias when it also hit a mine and the, captain, navigating officer and Williams were blown on the ship. Unable to swim because of his injuries, Williams clung to a piece of wood for about half an hour until he was located by other members of the crew, who had got away in a Carley float. Williams was taken in tow, two petty officers taking turns to keep his head above the water. Nearly nine hours later all were picked up.

Photographic engineer.
His son, Mr Jim Williamson writes: "My Father, HEPA Williamson, served as
bos’n’s mate on HMS Foresight in the Russian Convoys. Later, he was commissioned
and commanded landing craft in the Med, Sicily landings etc. I have his order
for release from HMS Mylodon in early 1946."

Wilson,
George Raymond Briscoe
Son (with one brother and one sister) of George Arthur Wilson (1883-1938), and
Margaret Briscoe (1890-1965).
Married (02.09.1939, Wharfedale district, West Riding of Yorkshire) Rhoda
Ellison (01.03.1919 - 04.2000); two daughters, one son.

815
Squadron, FAA [HMS Grebe
(RN Air Station, Dekheila, nr Alexandria)][torpedoed the Vichy French Destroyer Chevalier Paul on
16.06.1941; missing in action in the attack on the Italian Fleet at Taranto]

811
Squadron FAA [HMS Sparrowhawk (RN Air Station, Hatston, Orkneys), from 03.1943
HMS Biter (escort carrier)][while flying a patrol in a Swordfish Mk.II escorting convoy HX 237
shot down by gunfire from the German submarine U230, the aircraft exploded on hitting the water killing all on board]

Wood,
James TempletonYounger son (with one brother and one sister)
of Henry James Theodore Wood (1863-1918), barrister-at-law, and Ellen Beatrice
Jones-Parry (1866-1961), of London W2.
Married (06.06.1937, Eastry district, Kent) Norah Gartside Tipping (01.03.1911 -
09.09.2011), of London W11; three daughters.

* For gallantry, skill and inspiring devotion
to duty in disposing of damaged ammunition in the magazines of one of H.M.
Ships after she had been torpedoed. Lieutenant-Commander Woodrow handled the
first batch of damaged ammunition by himself in order to give confidence to
his party.

Wormald,
David
"Dave"Son of Harry Wormald, and Lydia Kate Dudman
(1891-1978), of Maidstone, Kent.
Married (1951, India) Lorna Newton, only daughter of H.H. Newton, and Mrs
Newton, of Carrickmines, County Dublin.

A son-in-law writes: "He also served as an
engineer on the flag ship Pacific Fleet at the time of the Japanese surrender.
He had had a distinguished career in the merchant navy before joining the RN
including development of radar and his connection with the service continued in
a civilian capacity after his official retirement. He retired in around 1974
when he was chief engineer at the RPE Westcott."

He had been with the Brooke-Bond tea company before
the war, to which he returned in 1946. He served in Calcutta, Ceylon and East
Africa, rising to a place on the board, controlling the company’s global
tea-buying and planting activities. He served on several governing bodies
dealing with tea production and by 1971 he was President of the Tea Buyers
Association.
* indexed, but not listed as such

FRANK HUMPHREY WRIGHT was born on November 15, 1907
[i.e. 1906]. He was at school at Sherborne and went to New College in
1926. There he obtained Second Classes in Classical Mods and Lit. Hum.,
and came to Winchester as an Assistant Master in September 1930. For some years
he took a Division in Junior Part, and afterwards one on the Science side of
Senior Part. In his anxiety to widen his experience, he obtained leave of
absence in 1937 to teach at the Village College at Bottisham, near Cambridge, a
school on a new model combining under one roof several different kinds of
educational work from elementary to adult. Some months before the outbreak of
the war, convinced that it could not be much longer postponed, he volunteered
for the R.N.V.R. and in September 1939 left to undergo a course of training in
meteorology. For a time he was stationed at Simonstown, and from there was
posted to H.M.S. Neptune in which ship he was serving when he lost his
life on December 19, 1941. He gave a rich and varied contribution to the life of
the School. He was devoted to his teaching work; not only did he serve his
divisions most faithfully, but he was a good German scholar having spent several
months in Germany and Austria in earlier days, and took an important part in the
advanced teaching of that subject. He also taught himself Russian in order to be
able to carry on the work of the Russian class started by Mr. McLachlan and left
without a shepherd on his departure. He was House Tutor to Mr. Robinson at what
was then Culver's Close. He was a keen cricketer, and was to be seen on most
summer afternoons coaching at the nets ; he was also an enthusiastic
Scoutmaster, and with Colonel Pinsent, Mr. Hampton and Mr. King was responsible
for the organisation and direction of the School Troop for several years. He
nearly got his Blue for Rugger at Oxford and often turned out for local sides in
Winchester. He had many outside interests and activities, and among them the
larger part of his heart lay with the work of the League of Nations Union. He
was for some time Hon. Secretary of the Winchester branch, and was indefatigable
in organising meetings and spreading information about the objects of the Union
both inside and outside the School. No man was ever more devoted to peace or
cared more for international understanding; but it was characteristic of him
that as soon as he saw that all hopes of that for the time were doomed, he
volunteered without hesitation for service in a war which he knew would come and
which, for all his bitter hatred of war, he knew was just. The officer at the
Admiralty responsible for the direction of his work in the meteorological
section was Captain L.G. Garbett, R.N., brother of the former Bishop of
Winchester, and he has been kind enough to supply some particulars about him
which show the high opinions that he won in the Service. Writing of his time at
Simonstown, Captain Garbett says "he made quite a name for himself on the
Station with his knowledge of German, and was becoming proficient in all
meteorological office routine. In a shore appointment however he did not feel he
was pulling his full weight, and he expressed a wish to serve afloat. On his
appointment to H.M.S. Neptune he threw himself wholeheartedly into his
work in her, which included the instruction of midshipmen in navigation, and he
also found time to gain some experience of air navigation and observer's duties.
As a result of the examination of meteorological logs received in the Admiralty,
he was commended in Admiralty Fleet Orders for the useful information in the
logs compiled in H.M.S. Neptune. On the return of the ship to England in
March 1941, he was temporarily appointed to a Naval Air Station, but at the
special request of his old Commanding Officer, who was full of praise and
appreciation of his work and high qualities, he was re-appointed to the ship on
August 28 [i.e. April 28]. Confidential reports received on him have been
of a high order, and his loss to the Service is a real one." His loss to
Winchester is even more real and greater. He married in 1930 Miss Helen Nowell
Smith, daughter of Mr. Nowell Charles Smith (COLL. 1883 - 1890), formerly
Headmaster of Sherborne School, and left three children.Source: Wykehamist War Service Record and Roll of Honour (Winchester : P. &
G. Wells, 1947)

* Special Branch officer employed on staff,
etc., duties ashore, who has not received any training of an executive
nature

04.09.1944

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(10.1944)

HMS Yeoman
(RN base, Thames) (for Divisional Transport Office)

(01.1945)

-

(04.1945)

no
appointment listed

04.1945

-

(07.)1945

HMS Stag
(RN base, Port Said, Egypt)

(10.1945)

no
appointment listed

His son writes: "Earlier in the war he was a
purser in the Merchant Navy. In 1945 up until he was discharged in
October 1945, he was at Mürwik nr Flensburg. I suspect it was to do with
interrogation of German naval officers."